Dr. Paola Marignani

Dr. Paola Marignani is a Full Professor at Dalhousie University in the Faculty of Medicine, Dept. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, with Cross-Appointment in the Dept of Pathology.  She conducted postdoctoral training at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute and the Ontario Cancer Institute, Toronto, Ontario and at Harvard Medical School in the Division of Signal Transduction.

Dr. Marignani is the Founder of Canadian Women in STEM that is focused on building a national strategy for equity, diversity and inclusion in Canada. CDNWomenSTEM is networked with 2000 self-identified scientists for across the STEM spectrum. CDNWomenSTEM supports the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) #DimensionsEDI initiative that was ratified in 2019.  #CDNWomenSTEM #leadbylifting #EDI #sciencesaves

In 2021, Dr. Marignani joined Creative Destruction Lab as a Mentor Scientist.

Education

MIT Sloan School of Management, Executive Program in Artificial Intelligence in Health Care

Executive MBA Ivey School of Business, Western University (UWO), Business Leadership Education for Executives

PhD McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario Canada, Cell Biology

MSc University of Western Ontario London, Ontario  Canada, Neurobiology

Hon BSc University of Windsor, Windsor Ontario Canada, Biology

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